Emerson’s Ken Planchard and Will Goetz presented Business Justification for Maintenance & Reliability Readiness at the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver. Here is their presentation’s abstract: Many organizations today do not think of Reliability as a business strategy. Executives require business cases for implementing any program, and it can be difficult for maintenance and reliability […]

The autumn edition of Innovations in Process Control is now published. It is also available in German, Italian, Spanish and French. This edition contains articles on: Reliability management consulting Reliability value chain Improved engineering efficiency drives reliability Process reliability starts in the basement Keeping a close eye on corrosion Innovative technologies Emerson Process Management Europe […]

In a post last summer, Portable Vibration Analyzer-Human Centered Design Style, we highlighted the latest advancements in handheld vibration analyzers. Since that time, Emerson’s Drew Mackley has been showing the device to reliability professionals around the globe. The feedback about improved usability from the human centered design (HCD) approach has been extremely positive. Given the […]

“According to the ARC Advisory Group of Boston, plants in the process industries ‘typically operate 20% below full operational capacity,’ and equipment reliability issues have been identified as one of the principal reasons for that wasteful record 1 “. This quote, from the Intech magazine article, Asset management systems increase reliability and efficiency, by Emerson’s […]